Reward-related attentional bias and adolescent substance use: a prognostic relationship?

ABSTRACT: Current cognitive-motivational addiction theories propose that prioritizing appetitive, reward-related information (attentional bias) plays a vital role in substance abuse behavior. Previous cross-sectional research has shown that adolescent substance use is related to reward-related attentional biases. The present study was designed to extend these findings by testing whether these reward biases have predictive value for adolescent substance use at three-year follow-up. Participants (N = 657, mean age = 16.2 yrs at baseline) were a sub-sample of Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS), a large longitudinal community cohort study. We used a spatial orienting task as a behavioral index of appetitive-related attentional processes at baseline and a substance use questionnaire a

SUBMITTER: van Hemel-Ruiter ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4376386 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature